Deconstruction After 9/11
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415964944
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Social Science / General; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan to Palestine and Baghdad. His 'textual activism' is as impatient with the universal gestures of philosophy as it is with the complacency and reductionism of policy-makers and activists alike. This work records a response to the war on thinking that has marked western discourse since 9/11"--Jacket.
Notes: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies